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Answer for the clue "Took advantage of ", 9 letters:
exploited

Word definitions for exploited in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: exploit )

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. developed or used to greatest advantage [ant: unexploited ] of persons; taken advantage of; "after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used" [syn: ill-used , put-upon , used , victimized , victimised ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mined \mined\ adj. extracted from a source of supply as of minerals from the earth. [Narrower terms: deep-mined ; exploited ; strip-mined ]

Usage examples of exploited.

And in the European commanderies, the Jews were considered usurers, were despised, people to be exploited, not trusted.

But at Pilade’s the reporter also felt like an exploited proletarian, a producer of surplus value chained to an ideological assembly line, and the students forgave him.

They exploited it to claim a miracle, which the masses venerated, while the true miracle is the golden law that governs this secret and simple mechanism of the elements earth and fire.

A tense situation, obviously: the tenant considered himself exploited, and so did the owner, who received only half the produce of his land.

I saw other faces not unknown to me, among them Bra-manti and—to my surprise—Commendatore De Gubernatis, an SEA already exploited by Garamond, but perhaps not yet made to face the terrible prospect of having all the copies of his masterpiece pulped, because he approached my boss with a show of obsequious gratitude.

With a fine display of vituperation, she vented her anger on Tukolom, the visible representative of the Guild that she vehemently declared had exploited the unsuspecting.

Originally, the system was exploited merely for the asteroid ores, with several multihulks hauling the metal to the nearest manufacturing system -- Balisdel, I think it is.

When the occasion called for it, and she was in the mood, Summer exploited the art.

It was something exploited by people as an excuse to act foolishly or unwisely.

There were pleasures deeper, richer than she'd ever imagined that could be drawn out and exploited by the most elemental gesture between a man and a woman.

It was that emotion that stripped away all his defenses even as her seeking hands and mouth exploited the weaknesses.

It was rather endearing to see the unconscious modesty from a woman who'd just exploited every inch of his body.

I doubt he'll find anything on any time-line that's being exploited by any legitimate paratimers.

He wondered what had happened to the imbecile who had transposed those Kholghoor Sector slaves onto an exploited time line.

They have their own paratemporal transposition equipment shops on Police Terminal, they have facilities for manufacturing duplicates of any kind of outtime items, like the firearms, for instance, and they know which time lines on which sectors are being exploited by legitimate paratime traders and which aren't.